Declining purchasing power: While media coverage has defined the debate
along party lines, politicians like Mitt
Romney and President
Barack Obama have agreed on one thing: Inflation has reduced the purchasing power
of the minimum wage. "Over 30 years, we've had either stagnating, at best,
or declining wages for our low-wage workers," says University
of California at Berkeley labor economist Sylvia Allegretto to Yahoo!.
"This idea that we can have a thriving economy, when we have a good swath
of our workers losing ground in pay decade after decade, while those at the top
are making more and more money, that does not make a successful economy."

Sub-minimum wages: There's another class of wage-earners who make even
less than the minimum: those who get tips on the job.

Like many tipped workers, [Zhanneta] Dunder has trouble making ends
meet because of an obscure federal provision called the tip credit, which has
established a sub-minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.15 per hour, or $4,333
a year for a full-time worker. Forty-five states have established slightly
higher sub-minimum wages...Organizations like the New York nonprofit Restaurant
Opportunities Centers don't think that's enough, and recommend at least raising
tipped wages to 70 percent of the minimum wage...Tipped workers, the group
says, are more likely to fall into poverty than those who receive minimum wage.
Servers rely on food stamps at nearly double the rate of the general
population. (May 23, Women
eNews)

15 minute rule for CFL bulbs:it’s
better to keep CFL bulbs turned on if you’ll need them again within 15
minutes.Frequent on and off burns more
energy as they require more energy to start them up.

PM’s
Compendium of Useful Resources

Backup
Power Sources for your well pump

Deep well pumps spend their useful service life submerged under a
hundred feet of water or more, pushing it to the surface for the needs
non-municipal water users. They are constructed with the electrical part of the
motor sealed and filled with propylene glycol at the factory to assure long
life. Most pump manufacturers warrant their product for at least five years,
and most pumps operating in clear-running wells may last from 15 to 25 years.
Disassembly of an improperly functioning pump is strongly discouraged. If it
becomes necessary for you to replace your deep well pump, however, here's how…

Note: We usually don't recommend replacing existing grid powered pumps with
solar. Solar pumps are best used when grid power is too far away and too
expensive. If you want to go green and go solar, we recommend adding solar
panels to your home and grid-tie them to your electric company. You will get
the most "bang for your buck" in today's solar marketplace.

If you have a shallow well, consider a hand pump or shallow well
motorized pump to use in case of emergency.The maximum for a particular well is determined by the combination of
several factors, including whether pumping into a pressurized plumbing system,
or using manual or motor to power. When using the Motor Extension, the maximum
supported depth also depends on the capacity of the pump cylinder used, and the
voltage at which it is run.Learn more
about hand pumps here:

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The Nanny
State Updates…

Today, a vast
array of government agencies is constantly monitoring what all of us say
and do on the Internet. They claim that this helps makes us all more
"safe" and "secure".

In order to maintain proper "control" over our lives, the
nanny state is obsessed with watching us and monitoring us. This point was
beautifully made in a recent article by
Chuck Baldwin....

America is no longer "one nation under God." Today, America
is "one nation under surveillance." Cameras monitoring our every
movement, satellites taking pictures of our homes, listening devices being used
to record our conversations, hi-tech computers capturing virtually every piece
of correspondence, banking institutions forwarding our private financial
records to Big Brother, and now armed drones flying over the neighborhoods of
the American citizenry all reveal that America is anything but the "land
of the free."

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countertop!

The Parting Thought –

The Squeeze Against Citizens is On!

The more dependencies government creates, the more people it can
convince to go along with the conspiracy, and the better off it is. This is why
Frederic Bastiat once described the political system as follows: “Government is
the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of
everybody else.”After all, Americans
don’t like socialism, but they sure enjoy bailouts and government assistance.

When the government goes bankrupt, as it is going to do, the bailouts
will cease…AND

Due to the immense size of Washington's bureaucracy, it also means that
there are a lot of bureaucrats around who are going to lose their jobs after
the Great Default.

The government has created more anti-citizen policies than even during
WWII

Surveillance State. While the US Government may have tapped one or two phones in 1947 they
certainly weren't building a $2 billion domestic spying data center in Utah to
monitor all telephone calls, emails and web traffic.

The War on Plants. There was no "war on plants" (drug war) in 1947. Today the
US has the largest amount of people in cages per population by a factor of four
(see "Kidnapping
and Ransom Rampant in the US"). The US has nearly 800 people in cages per
100,000. The US has 5% of the population of the Earth and 25% of the total
incarcerated. Of total arrests in 2008, 90.7% were for non-crimes (ie.
victimless crimes). Now, possession of a dried flower that millions, including
Barack Obomber, enjoy regularly is reason to haul someone off in the night.

The more nefarious side of the U.S. government’s cyber surveillance includes
not only physical or cyber-terror threats and from where they originate, but
those who have been labeled as “political dissidents.” According to sources
close to such programs, the government is monitoring all cyber communications and
maintaining a database of individuals and entities merely critical of
government operations.

Putting it bluntly, our security apparatus has been turned inward
against its own citizens. The threat has been widened to include political
adversaries and has nothing to do with actual or perceived terror threats, but
those who oppose the current course of operations of our government

Today our freedoms are taken away with the stroke of a pen.

Tomorrow it will be at the barrel of a gun.

And when that happens (because it will...) you had better be prepared.

While U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act
of 1947 into law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of
Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council, no one
could have imagined that by 2012 the US Government would be signing into law an
act that will put 30,000 drones over the US, watching US citizens. The US Government and the US dollar are in its death throes. There is
really only one thing left that can be done to stave off the funeral for a few
more years... and that is to begin to leach off of the citizenry until everyone
is sucked dry. What's that mean? Taxes, taxes, and more taxes. 2012 and 2013
will be remembered in the US as the years of the tax hike. States across the US
have been raising taxes on almost anything. See "Record Tax Hike Isn't Fixing Illinois'
Problem" and "Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes
deepen" as just two of countless examples.

But, that's just the states. Brace yourself... next year US citizens
will be extorted with a tax hike the likes of which US tax slaves have never
seen. The Washington Post called the unprecedented $494 billion tax hike "Taxmageddon," and Federal
Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke described it as a "massive
fiscal cliff."

The squeeze is on... and it won't get any better any time soon. Expect
worse and worse until the end of the US Government or the US dollar.

3 comments:

Cutbacks and attacks on labor means that many consumers do not have the means to increase consumption. Median wages continue to decline.While in May wages were up 2 cents from last year adjusted for inflation this is actually a decline.While overall corporate profits are healthy in many cases it is because of keeping costs down often by cutting the number of employees. This however decreases customer base for other companies.